Essay Contest Winners

Being able to vote is of great importance. Voting helps us express our
voice. Many people in our community has gained help be voting, and have
gotten more rights as well. Due to our voting right, we Americans get
to have a lot of great things and commodities.

Voting is a way of expressing our thoughts and our voice. By having a
lot of people who can vote, they can go and encourage others to go register
and vote. By voting one lets our leaders know what we want, need, approve
or disapprove. I think voting is not really done, simply because the people
do now know the importance of it and how it has helped in the past and
also how it will help us.

Through the voting process we have had many right, and commodities in
our city. We get to pick whom to represent us nation and state wise. Through
voting we have chosen what our city wants, needs, and what we approve
such as recreation centers, school regulations, and also entertainment
areas. We as high school students, we practice our right to vote in school
elections, such as class presidents, student council elections class favorites
and homecoming elections. It is good to know that even in high school
we get to practice and know the importance of voting in school. By getting
to vote in school elections, when we become eligible to vote we know the
importance and how it will affect us if we don’t vote.

In our community, having the right to vote is something that many encourage
and is done sometimes often. We know when and where to go to vote. When
we vote it gives us a sense of freedom, knowing that we have rights that
maybe in other parts of the world they don’t have. By voting we can get
more funding for school organizations, community construction. As our
government sees how we vote, they send more federal and state grants and
know that our city is active and is indeed interested in bettering our
surroundings.

In every election we must practice the right to vote. If we vote in every
election even if it’s just a simple one, others get to know what we think.
If voting is a privilege why not use it.